ANICUT DAM:

The Kangsabati River framework (likewise differently known as the Kasai and Cossye, and totally unrelated to the Kasai River in Africa ), ascends from the Chota Nagpur level in the province of Jharkhand, India, and goes through the areas of Purulia, Bankura, and Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal prior to depleting in the Bay of Bengal.

Subsequent to ascending close to Jhalda in the Chota Nagpur level in the Purulia locale, it passes by Khatra and Ranibandh in the Bankura region, and afterward enters Paschim Medinipur in the Binpur region. It is joined by Bhairabbanki. At Keshpur the stream parts into two. The northern branch courses through the Daspur region as Palarpai and joins the Rupnarayan River. The other branch flows in a south-easterly bearing and on joining the Kaliaghai River shapes the Haldi River, which streams into the Hooghly River at Haldia. Mukutmanipur, Midnapore, and Kharagpur are towns on or close to the banks of this waterway. Kangsabati Project The Kangsabati Project was begun in 1956 as a component of the Indian Second Five-year Plan to give water to 3,484.77 km² of land in the locale of Paschim Medinipur, Purba Medinipur, Bankura, and Hooghly. It includes water system land utilizing water from the Kangsabati River, as well as the Shilabati and the Bhoirobbanki waterways. As a component of the Project, a 38 m high and 10,098 m long dam was developed at Khatra. An Ancient Dam based on the Kangsabati River close to Midnapore in 1872 was likewise added to the activities of the undertaking.